KSP investigating a shooting that involved an LPD officer
Officer involved shooting
and last updated 2021-05-01 23:38:37-04
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â On Saturday night, Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers held a brief news conference concerning a shooting that involved an LPD officer.
Earlier Saturday, around 5:30 pm, Chief Weathers says Lexington Police officers were dispatched to a shots fired report in the 600-block of Marshall Lane.
While en route, Weathers says that the dispatch center received calls of someone outside shooting a firearm. An officer arrived and immediately observed gunfire. In response to the subject firing a weapon at the officer, the officer returned gunfire, striking the subject. The officer was not injured. The subject, a 21-year-old Black male sustained a serious injury to his front shoulder, which initially appears to be non-life-threatening at the scene, said Chief Weathers.
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The investigation led officers to identifying Dewhurst, 75, as a suspect, police said.
Dewhurst faces a charge of misdemeanor assault family violence with bond set at $1,000, online records showed.
He was booked into the Dallas County Jail at 12:19 a.m. and released shortly before 5 a.m.
The Dallas Police Department’s Public Integrity Unit will continue the investigation.
Dallas police did not release the name of the woman in the incident and investigators did not describe her relationship with Dewhurst.
Dewhurst was Texas’ lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2015. He ran for U.S. Senate in 2012 but lost the race for the Republican nomination to Ted Cruz in a runoff. In 2014, he lost his bid for a fourth term as lieutenant governor in a primary runoff against Dan Patrick.